Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.